Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US said it has intelligence that China conducted banned nuclear explosive tests. The nuclear monitoring organization said it ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one. “As of today, the ...

Several military technological innovations have changed the course of history. From the sailing ship to the stirrup, these advances have pushed the world into new directions, and chief among them is ...

Nuclear weapons are often discussed in abstractions, as if they were just another line item in a defense budget or a bargaining chip in diplomacy. The brutal truth is that they are engineered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last treaty between the U.S. and Russia that limited the number of deployable nuclear weapons expired on Thursday, marking the ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...

Late last week, the U.S. leveled an explosive claim: China is planning secret nuclear weapons tests and has already conducted at least one. The undersecretary of state for arms control and ...

Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles parade through Red Square in Moscow as the Kremlin sabotages the last nuclear arms treaty with the U.S., potentially speeding up a new atomic arms race.

Within hours of the expiration last week of the final arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington, the State Department sent its top arms diplomat, Thomas G. DiNanno, to Geneva to lay out ...

The last treaty between the U.S. and Russia that limited the number of deployable nuclear weapons expired on Thursday, marking the end of decades of arms control agreements between the two countries ...